The Echo Group has a long and successful history delivering software and services to many agencies and county mental health authorities throughout the state of California. Echo has developed specific functionality to address the needs of the state's providers.

Eligibility Verification
The Echo Group provides the valuable Eligibility Verification Check (EVC) using the long established Oakland-Health & Welfare Data Center (HWDC) link that allows Echo customers to access Medi-Cal eligibility information and to review and clear Medi-Cal Share of Cost data. The ShareCare Eligibility and Share of Cost pages work much like a standard Medi-Cal POS device to verify Medi-Cal Information. The data is passed from the ShareCare system to the HWDC using a secure link and standard HIPAA compliant 270/271 file formats.

Monthly Medi-Cal Eligibility File
ShareCare includes functionality to download and process the Monthly Medi-Cal Eligibility File (MMEF) from the state as well as the Medi-Cal Explanation of Benefits (EOB).

Assessments
ShareCare contains a series of clinical assessments designed to allow you to pick and choose which assessments the consumer needs. The ShareCare assessments can be customized by your organization to require, hide, or change various fields or areas of the assessments. The system provides you with a summary tool that supplies quick reference to all assessments completed for a consumer. Both the CalOMS and ASI are part of the ShareCare suite of assessments.

Billing
Multiple claim file formats are available including the CMS 1500, UB04, and the Medi-Cal 837 for both Mental Health and ADP. When the system generates claim files it also generates a Bill Print Status Report. The Bill Print Status Report will inform you of errors the system found when trying to create the claim file. A tool is available that allows an organization to define what the warnings and errors are for any given file format.